I like the two-tiered approach of at first looping/delaying the source and then taking this and stretching it out via the ever-trusted Audacity. In the first half, it certainly sounds like the piece is leaving traces of itself trailing behind. By the latter portion, this is still evident, but I also got the visual impression of the sounds being pulled and stretched out, similar to how a something printed on a plastic wrapper (or similar) might be pulled and twisted, distorting its semblance.

Bowed basses and cellos (harmonics, fx and sustained notes)
Composed and performed by DD in Paris 27/March/2025.

Inspired by this haiku

Fog dissolves to rain
- cool breezes clear the vista,
showing cloud-topped hills

Poem by Raymond Cobley
Photo by Casey Horner

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Fog and Rain (naviarhaiku586)

I selected the 4th movement of the quartet, chopped it up and remixed it to a stereo track. Then, by means of many adjustments and various effects, I converted it to a modern atonal/microtonal composition.

More on the 691st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Un-Ravel — The Assignment: Make a recording of a string quartet fall apart — at https://disquiet.com/0691/

Ravel Revamped (disquiet0691)

Following this week's Disquiet Junto project this track was created using a historic recording of the Ravel string quartet from 1928.
This is the sound of a dream, dissolved beyond recognition, but still present as the conscious cause of this unconscious music.

The audio was transformed using spectral synthesizers and effect chains to create this dreamlike rendition. No other sounds or instruments were employed.

More on the 691st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Un-Ravel — The Assignment: Make a recording of a string quartet fall apart — at https://disquiet.com/0691/

rêver  (Disquiet0691)

Disquiet Junto Project 0691: Un-Ravel
The Assignment: Make a recording of a string quartet fall apart.

Step 1: Download the first movement of the Ravel string quartet at this URL: https://bit.ly/un-ravel

The original source is the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/3-capet-sq-col-d-15057-60-ravel-1928-mov-3/

Step 2: Listen to the track closely.

Step 3: Create a new piece of music by employing the provided recording as source material. The goal for your piece is that it should make the Ravel sound like it is falling apart — that is, like it is unraveling, or un-Ravel-ing.

More on the 691st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Un-Ravel — The Assignment: Make a recording of a string quartet fall apart — at https://disquiet.com/0691/

unravelling [disquiet0691]

the end result is not so much a string quartet falling apart as it is a resonator-granular garble, but that's how it is sometimes

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More on the 691st weekly Disquiet Junto project, Un-Ravel — The Assignment: Make a recording of a string quartet fall apart — at https://disquiet.com/0691/



disquiet0691 - gravel

Inspired by Naviar Haiku 586:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku586-fog-dissolves-to-rain/
Thanks to Marco Alessi from Naviar Records for the weekly challenge!
Photo by zenbytes (Sibratsgfäll, Austria, 2021)

Water drops 4.wav by Zaziesound -- https://freesound.org/s/496303/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

fog dissolves - Naviarhaiku586



Composition pour le Naviar Haïku Music challenge 586.
Sur un haïku de Raymond Cobley:

fog dissolves to rain
- cool breezes clear the vista,
showing cloud-topped hills 

www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/


Droplets on the hills

three 90s jungle beats, all slowed to 128bpm, switch out across two channels

morse code plays the phrase "fog dissolves to rain" on ableton's "EFX Small Cymbal" rack

four granular soundbeds

a melody i played through three sampled instruments (upright bass, piano, guitarophone)

one atmospheric drone from the "though-forms" patreon

mary says "maybe tomorrow"

[naviarhaiku586] clear the vista

Subway No2

Improvisation in the Dastgah of Nava
Majid Derakhshani – Tar
Shahou Andalibi – Ney
Arman Sigarchi – Oud

A spontaneous live recording capturing the dialogue of three instruments within the Persian modal system of Nava.
Recorded at Schoko Pro Studio, Wiesbaden, Germany – October 20, 2010
Recording Engineer: Michael Küstere-Trenkle

unravelling [disquiet0691]

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